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MsDWrites
@msdwrites.bsky.social
Editor, writer, ceramicist, keen on facts and changing models when required. She/her, Brit in Oz, sweary, loves animals, lesbian mums, bugger all bigot tolerance.
Bird count achievement unlocked: two tawny frogmouths!
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Latest little bits from the kiln, a mix of screen printing, stamping and hand painted Greek figures on terracotta and porcelain
July 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Why haven’t you finished cleaning the kick wheel, D?’
‘Oh, things just got in the way…’
Things:
July 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I’ve nothing useful to offer, alas, but here’s a mediocre photo of a very chonky kookaburra I saw recently
June 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Snap! It’s a gem of a text.
June 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I often underrate Emma, simply because I love Persuasion and P&P so much, but it really is full of Jane’s sickest burns.
May 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The American in this argument is so wrong on wrong that it’s not worth linking to the skeet they’ve closed replies on, but @dimsie.bsky.social’s response is utter Kiwi perfection
May 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
My phone just reminded me of baby Pickle cosplaying a demon two years ago, before I was able to catch her and her sister and mum from their hideout under the nursery school!
April 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
My phone just reminded me of baby Pickle cosplaying a demon two years ago, before I was able to catch her and her sister and mum from their hideout under the nursery school!
April 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Not satisfied with being so often wrong, AI is now writing little horror stories.
April 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s official autumn weather
March 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I’ve been wondering why my front birdbath has so few bird visitors… And yes, that is my porch cat.
March 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apparently it’s heron week along the Cooks River. This one wandered straight past me on the path at Steel Park tonight.
March 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Pickle cat: pure of heart, empty of brain.
March 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Have a heron who was catching flies on the golf course bin last night
March 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Heron catching flies above the golf course bin. The shapes of this bird are just hysterical
March 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Magical moment on the golf course: this heron was catching flies above the bin!
March 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Wiring up earrings: the job that takes 20 minutes of actual action and two days of procrastination. Etsy photos later, or I might just run another carport sale…
March 19, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Waiting for the weather to cool down enough to glue the button shanks onto these babies, but I’m in Sydney and we have an autumn heatwave
March 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One day I will work out how to keep the most detailed brush strokes happy through the glaze firing, but these came out pretty damn good! And also almost exactly the same size as the buttons they’re replacing (well within tolerance)
March 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Finished the fairy wren button set! Not quite perfect but I never am… all in underglazes on lumina midfired porcelain, will get a clear glaze coating then button fittings glued on and any exposed edges varnished. Phew!
March 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is Pew before the election, but educational attainment is not where the polarisation is strongest at all (source www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...).
March 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Wren button time! Forgot to take a photo of all three as sketches, but did snap the underpainting with underglazes and the final painting of the Splendid Fairy Wren, next up the Superb and a Jenny wren (who looks similar for both!) All on Lumina midfire porcelain, so the colours should fire true.
March 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Black history month tribute from theharperwatters on TikTok. Absolutely beautiful and a wonderful reminder of so many powerful and graceful dancers (parts 2&3 on his acct)
February 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This one would accept a gentle smooch after a day or two, Pickle will not be home to new visitors fur at least a month
February 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM